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Till My Head Falls Off By They Might Be Giants
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You can pretty much pick up the rythm
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of things now solo
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jon Wanna Be |
#1 by jon a at Jun 2, 1977 at 11:20 AM EST |
| I was just looking at the lyrics to this song and an interesting possible interpretation came to me. The interpretation I had heard before was this is someone trying to kill themselves which is pretty obvious and the figure he doesn't recognize at all is himself without his head. I was thinking about a few of the lines and a completely different interpretation. I'm thinking this is about some sort of a speaker and I'm leaning towards a priest especially with the gripping the lectern line. He's talking to someone in the song. One thought I had is that the priest thinks he's possessed by satan or something to that effect. The numbers at the begining of the song seem to have some meaning as well. Is he just trying to down advil to drive out these demons from his head or is there more significance to this. If the bottle starts out with 87 advil that means there were 13 missing before the song even starts. 13 is an unluckly number so maybe the narrator is supersticious. He's arguing with someone while he's counting the advil because he ate 47 advil (why that number.... not sure) but when he counts the advil they're ten short. He's trying to conclude a thought but something is keeping him from completing the thought. Also, the broken figure he doesn't recognize may be that of his tormentor or possessor. I'm probably way off on all my guesses here, but this is my favorite They Might Be Giants song so I really want to know what the song is actually about. | |
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StreetwiseProfe Wanna Be |
#2 by StreetwiseProfessor at Feb 14, 1981 at 12:14 PM EST |
| first of all, these lyrics are slighty wrong, instead of "clearing my throat and dripping the liquer" it should read "clearing my throat and gripping the lectern" it makes more sense then. i believe its about a guy, trying to overdose on advil. | |
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Tyler Wanna Be |
#3 by Tyler Wood at Aug 3, 1985 at 6:28 AM EST |
| It's about a kid in the bathroom, that's getting school-related(don't know where i put my notes) stress headaches(87 advil...), and locked himself in the bathroom to do something-suicide?, or maybe find the Advil- and his sibling(s) are asking if he's done yet. he gives the typical response "I'm NOT DONE YET, and I won't be 'til my head falls off. that's it.Oh, and the lyrics are wrong. It's not "dripping the liquer" it's "gripping the lectern (sink)" | |
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joe Average |
#4 by joe barker at Aug 2, 1994 at 2:31 PM EST |
| It's not a song about suicide. It's a song about old age and forgetfulness. Verse one, he's lost track of how many Advil he's taken since the bottle was new, and wonders who could have taken the missing pills, as he compulsively counts them again and again. Verse two, he nervously rehearses a speech in front of the bathroom mirror, but can't find it in his pockets, and briefly forgets that he's just standing in the bathroom practicing. The "lecturn" he's gripping is the sink in front of his bathroom mirror. (The "audience" is his reflection, the description of which is what is really going on. Hence: Clearing my throat and gripping the lecturn I smile and face my audience clearing its throat and smiling with his hands on the bathroom sink. Kind of reminds you of the word pallendromes from "I Palendrome I", doesn't it?) The references to not recognizing himself and seeing the "broken figure" will become all to familiar to you as you get older. We tend to hold a memory of what we look like, and that's what we see most of the time when looking in the mirror, except for occational moments of clarity when we suddenly see a new face where our young image once was. Trust me on this if you have not experienced it. The comment about his head falling off, and how it "may not be a long way off" is a play on the old saying about absent-minded people who keep misplacing their glasses and stuff: "He would lose his head if it wasn't attached." It has nothing to do with self-decapitation. | |
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cliff Average |
#5 by cliff burton at Aug 26, 2007 at 3:03 PM EST |
| it's either hinting towards suicide, or it's what rodan said... somebody with a lot of mental disorders. it could also be both, part of it make me certain that it's either. | |
